Chapter 183 — Between Girl and Woman

The hospital clock read nine o’clock at night.

Ayden was still lying in bed. He couldn’t sleep.

The blow to his head had left him with a slight throbbing, but what hurt the most was what he had seen in his mother’s eyes: fear, sadness, and disappointment.

The card was still on the nightstand.

The name “Milagros Saavedra” seemed to glow with a different kind of intensity under the light of the lamp.

He picked it up between his fingers and turned it slowl